Biography and turning points in Europe and America
This sociological collection advances the argument that the concept of a turning point expands our understanding of life experiences from a descriptive to a deeper and more abstract level of analysis.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798018706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Unpacking biographical narratives: investigating stories of artistic careers in Northern Jutland, Denmark / Feiwel Kupferberg
- Turning points in the life course: a narrative concept in professional bifurcations / Catherine Negroni
- Conjugal deparation and immigration in the life course of immigrant single mothers in Quebec / Ana Gherghel and Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques
- MIgration biography and ethnic identity: on the discontinuity of biographical experience and how turning points affect the ethnicisation of biography / Thea D. Boldt
- Biographical structuring through a critical life event: parental loss during childhood / Gerhard Jost
- Decisive turning points in life trajectories of violence among young men in the barrios of Caracas: the initiation and biographical reconversion to non-violent lifestyles / Verónica Zubillaga
- The turning points of the single life course in Budapest, Hungary / Ágnes Sántha
- Complicating actions and complicated lives: raising questions about narrative theory through an exploration of lesbian lives / Nicki Ward
- Religious conversion as a biographical turn/ing: the case of Orthodox believers in contemporary Russia / Liana Ipatova
- Conclusion: theorising turning points and decoding narratives / Feiwel Kupferberg.
